“Plastic garbage bags were never a great solution,” Johnathan says. “Everyone has had the experience of the thin plastic tearing when you take the bag out, so garbage and dirty water end up ...

California. California Plastic Bag Bans Spur 120 Percent Increase in Sales of Thicker Plastic Garbage Bags A new study says plastic bag bans encourage people to use less eco-friendly substitutes.

That year — 2019 — Australia used something like 3.3 billion trash bags. That’s just in Australia, which has less than a tenth of the population of the U.S. TOMbags ...

Even a study called “Plastic Bag Bans Work,” done by environmental and public interest groups, features a table showing that the amount of plastic bags thrown away per 1,000 people in ...